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The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE FIRST TREATISE FOR AN AFFLICTED CONSCIENCE UPON THIS SCRIPTURE.
THE FIRST TREATISE FOR AN AFFLICTED CONSCIENCE VPON THIS SCRIPTVRE.
PROVERBS 18. 14. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: but a wounded spirit who can bear it?
PROVERBS 18. 14. The spirite of a man will sustaine his infirmitie: but a wounded spirit who can beare it?
This Scripture is not only worthy to be graven in steel with the pen of an Adamant, & to be written in letters of gold: but also to be laid up and registered by the finger of Gods spirit in the tables of our hearts. Which sentence briefly speaketh thus much unto us, that what trouble befalleth a man (his mind being unappalled) he will indifferently bear it out: but if the spirit of a man be once troubled and dismayed, he cannot tell how to be delivered. And no marvel: for if the mind of man be the1 fountain of consolation, which ministereth comfort unto him in all other troubles; if that become comfortless, what shall comfort it? If it be void of help, how shall it be holpen? If the eye which is the light of the body be darkness, how great is that darkness? If the salt which savoureth all things be unsavoury, for what is it good? If the mind which sustaineth all troubles be troubled, how intolerable is that trouble? To show this the better, I will first declare how great a punishment of God this wound of conscience is. Secondly, I will teach how this trouble of mind may be prevented and avoided. Lastly, I will set down how Gods children falling in some measure into this affliction of spirit, may be recovered out of it.